That we all might boot/last as long

[tangor]

Seagate reckons it has found the oldest working Seagate disk drive in the UK: a 28-year-old ST-412 disk drive from 1983.

It is the drive for an old IBM PC, which booted up when it was brought down from owner Mitch Hansen's attic in his Ruislip house. The 5.25-inch disk has four platters, eight read and write heads, spins at 3,600rpm, weighs 2.1kg (4.1lbs) and holds just 10MB of data. Seagate says it would have cost £263 back in 1983.

[theregister.co.uk...]

I still have my first IBM XT... and a 286, 386 and 486 (the latter still runs some legacy programs)

Have a feeling that bits and pieces of the Internet will still be operating long after the next iteration. Max Headroom is proof of that. :)

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What would be impressive would be if it were in practical use for 28 years.